The Impact of the Long-term Illness Scheme (LTI) on Inequalities in the Utilisation of Ambulatory Care Between 1998 and 2008
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P olicies aimed at reducing inequalities in the healthcare domain in France tend to be focused on access to healthcare, either by extending Statutory Health Insurance coverage (Universal Health Insurance Coverage (CMU) known as "basic" coverage, and State Medical Aid (AME), or by extending complementary health insurance coverage (complementary CMU and financial assistance for the acquisition of complementary health insurance (French ACS scheme)). The question of beneficiaries’ ability to pay for healthcare was raised from the introduction of the National Health Insurance scheme. The Long-term Illness scheme introduced in 1945 thus aimed at reducing the financial burden of healthcare expenditures for beneficiaries suffering from long-term and costly diseases through the exemption of co-payments for any medical care associated with the disease concerned, whatever the patient’s income level. n°183 January 2013
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